David Franklin

David Franklin is an art historian with expertise in Italian Renaissance art, a curator, and a former art museum director. Thomson Collection David Franklin is employed by the Thomson Collection in Toronto, Ontario. On April 8, 2015, he gave his first public lecture under this affiliation at the National Gallery of Canada's Wednesday Morning Lecture Series, focusing his remarks on Piero de Cosimo's painting. Franklin helped plan the Canadian Photography Institute, which has promised gifts from the Archive of Modern Conflict and major funding from Bank of Nova Scotia. He is an editor of The Canadians (2016), a selection of photographs from The Globe and Mail archives. Mr Franklin was also the managing editor of All at War: German photography by German Soldiers 1939-45, by I. Jeffrey. Cleveland Museum of Art Franklin was named director of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2010. While Franklin, a Renaissance scholar was Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, a donation of $1,000,000 was made by Leigh Carter in 2013 to the museum's endowment to fund a permanent fellowship to help the museum's director conduct research on special art historical projects. Dr. Franklin presented his vision for the museum at the City Club on February 25, 2011. World Famous Cleveland Club Lecture